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Proverbial Wisdom

Proverbs 16
Paul Mahan August, 13 2000 Audio
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Proverbs 16, every verse, if
you read it carefully with me, you notice every verse is so
weighty, so filled with wisdom. This is the Lord's Word, and yet He used this man Solomon
to write it. man of whom it is said was the
wisest man on earth. And you can see that. Every verse
is full of wisdom. Every verse deserves a message. But I don't want to dwell too
long in one place. We're just going to look down
through here briefly at some of these verses. And where we
stop, the Lord will decide. Verse one says, the preparations,
disposings of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue
is from the Lord. That verse really meant something
after we sung that song. You know, I'm so glad we sung
that song. It says, I love thy kingdom,
Lord, the house of thine abode. the Church, our blessed Redeemer,
saved with his own precious blood. Now, there was a time when I
had no interest whatsoever in the Church. There was a time when, as the
last place I wanted to bet was here, there was a time when God
never entered my mind. preparation of the heart of the
Lord. You can't make someone be interested
in God. Scripture says God is not in
all men's thoughts. We have a lot of thoughts. Men
like to think about a lot of things. God's usually not one
of them. But now the Lord prepares the
heart. If the Lord does something to
the heart, then God is in the heart, is in the thoughts. A
man, a woman, a young person begins to think about God, and
if God saves that person, that's how he begins. He begins to make
them conscious of who God is, what they are. And after he saves
them, then he dwells in the heart, to where that person thinks about
all the time. But that's just not human nature,
is it? Huh? The answer of the tongue is from
the Lord. The answer of the tongue, you
know, out of the abundance of the heart and the mouth speaketh,
Scripture says. Out of the abundance of the heart
and the mouth speaketh. I thought about Peter's answer
when our Lord was asking those disciples that day, who do men
say that I am? And they began to say, well,
some say you're this and some say you're that. And he said,
but who do you say I am? Peter spoke up. It's one time
he should have. He said, thou art the Christ, son of the living God. Then he
said that from his heart, and he said it with conviction. Thou
art the Christ. We know who you are. You're the
son of the living God. Peter, a little while back, you
didn't even know who I was or didn't care. Now you know, don't
you? Why? Preparation of the heart,
the answer of the tongue. It's from the Lord. Henry Sorter,
there was a day when you didn't know anything about mercy or
grace or sovereignty or the gospel or Christ or justification, propitiation,
didn't care, did you? These words are sweet now, aren't
they? Preparation of the heart. That
gives me comfort. That gives me hope for those
that I want so bad to impress this upon. Your children, friends,
others that I would like so badly to believe and love this gospel. That gives me hope. Is it you? husband and wife. If God hadn't prepared your heart,
you would never have heard this gospel. If God hadn't filled
your heart, you wouldn't be here singing these hymns. Preparation
of the heart and the answer of the tongues from the Lord. See
that? Verse two. And all of these things
are connected if we had the wisdom to see it. Heart, tongue, All the ways of a man are clean
in his own eyes. You know, we usually justify
what we do, don't we? We justify what we do. Most
people, all people think, well, look down at verse, let's see,
we're at verse 25. There is a way that seemeth right
unto a man. Every man, the ways of every
man are right, clean in his own eye. What does God say about
man's ways? Is it not my ways? Now, God is
true, Scripture says. Every man is a liar. That means
whatever God says is true. Whatever we say that's not in
keeping with what God said is a lie, it's false. God's ways are true. Everything
God does is true. Whatever we do that's not in
keeping with his way is wrong. It's the other way. You see that? There is a way. All the ways
of a man are clean in his own eyes. They're clean. But the Lord weighs the spirits,
that is, the heart. One woman one time said this
to I think she said to my wife, my wife was talking to her. No,
she said to me, talking about man's utter sinfulness
before a holy God and all seeing God as if there's none good,
no, not one. And this person didn't believe
that. Very few people do. Very few people believe what
God says about man. You know that? Scripture says there's none righteous,
not one. There's none good. There's not a just man on the
earth, Scripture says, that doeth good and sinneth not, not one.
That's what Scripture says, but men don't think that. Scripture talks about an infinitely
holy God on a throne who the sun is not even pure in He charges
his angels with folly. That's the scripture. That's
God's work. He charges his angels, the holy
angels, as not being good enough. Men don't believe that. God's not like that. Well, this woman, we were talking
about that, and she said, well, this one thing I know. God knows
my heart. She was pleading that, you see.
She was pleading that. Well, maybe you are what you're
saying so, but this is what I'm trusting in. This is what I'm...
Here's my hope. God knows my heart. That's for sure. That is for sure. That's what
that's saying there. The Lord way of the spirits.
The Lord way of the spirits. thoughts, intents, purposes,
attitude, motive, everything. And we ought to weigh our words
and our thoughts and our ways and everything in light of God's
Word. Well, verse 3 says, Commit your
works unto the Lord. Commit thy works unto the Lord.
I believe that means commit everything submit everything unto God's
word, first of all. Try it. Weigh it in light of
God's word. Well, you'll see it's weighed
and wanting, won't you? Like that handwriting on the
wall. Remember the handwriting on the wall to that king? What
it said? Thou art weighed in the balances
and found wanting. Like him. That's what this word,
if we commit our works, submit our work, under the will be found
wanting. Commit thou, and your thoughts
will be established. You see that? Your right thoughts will
be established. Will be established. Will be
established that we've never done anything worthy, and never
done anything without a selfish motive. Never done anything pure,
never thought a pure thought, and so forth. That's what they're
saying. Also, for believers in here,
I believe this means commit whatever it is you're disposed to do,
whatever it is you have to do, wherever it is you have to go,
who you have to go with, whatever it is you have to do, whatever
your hand is found to do, commit it to the Lord. And your thoughts
will be established. You won't be, you'll have right
thoughts about it. You'll know what to do in a given situation. You hear that? I need that. All right, look at this next
verse. Now, if you heard the radio, you heard this. Verse four. The Lord hath made
all things for himself. Is everyone looking at this verse?
Proverbs 16.4. And I said this, that if you've
never seen this before and ever considered this verse, it'll
change your theology. It will. Whatever we think about
God, if you've never seen this verse before, you take an honest
look at it, it'll raise your spiritual eyebrows
about God. All right, look at it, verse
4. The Lord hath made all things for himself, yes, even the wicked, for the day of evil. Did you read that? Want to read
it again? The Lord hath made all things
for himself, yes, yea, even the wicked, for the day of evil. He made
that. Now, either this is true, or
why are we doing this? That's either true, or we need
to close this book and forget this. There is no God. There's no God. God means, the word God means
absolute ruler. See, we don't know anything about
her. We've never, no one in this room has ever lived in a time
when there was an absolute monarch king. I mean a ruler. I mean a king who said, where
the word of the king is, Scripture says, there's power. No one in
here has ever lived in a time when there was a king on the
earth who did exactly what he wanted to do, with whom he wanted
to do it with, just because he wanted to do it. And it doesn't matter what anybody
else thought. And if somebody even voiced an
objection, You see, Darnell, this is so
far removed from this generation that men say, that can't be right. That can't be right. But it is either true, either
God is God, absolute ruler and controller of all things, or
there is no God. You understand? There is no God. God either absolutely controls
as Barnard said, everything that writhes or wriggles. We just
read the heart and the Word, that nothing thought, nothing
said, outside of the reign and the rule and the control of God
Almighty. Now, that's either so or there
is no God, and we're a bunch of fools for sitting in here. Do you understand what we're
saying here, what this means? You understand the ramifications
of this, that either there is a God in the absolute sense of
the word, or there is no God. You see, this is so simple, yet
it's so profound. Let me explain here. make you
understand this. God must have a purpose, people. God must have a purpose for everything,
or he's not God. He must control everything. When we say God is God, we mean
creator, too. God must be the creator of all
things, or he's not God. Do you understand what we're
saying here? If there's something outside of the control of, something
that's not totally dependent on God, then there is no God. That's what the word God means,
capital G. Creator. Now, let me ask you
something. If something was out of God's
control, would he have created it? Would you? Man has created computers,
hasn't he? He's about out of control. He really is. Mine's about gotten control of
me. Hasn't it, you? A little while ago, you know,
I didn't even know they existed, didn't care, didn't need them.
But now, oh, no. I say that facetiously, but what
I mean is, if it fails, you know, boy, I don't know what to do.
I've got to start over again about some things, some things.
Well, man still has control of that computer, doesn't he? Huh?
I'll tell you how. Huh? Things give me fits. Computers never will control
man. Don't worry about that. They won't control all things. God controls all things. All things. Even the wicked. For the day of evil. All right?
Let me present some things to you. All right? Some things to
think about. have all kinds of questions.
And turn to Romans 9 with me. Romans chapter 9. Turn over there. Now, millions and millions of
years ago, God Almighty created the angels. Do you believe that? Do you believe God created angels? Do you? Well, you have to. I mean, God's the only uncreated
being, right? Where'd angels come from? They
didn't just happen, they didn't evolve. Where'd they evolve from? God created them. All right? One of them was named Lucifer.
Who was that? Satan. All right? Now, knowing, known
under God, Acts 3.18. Known unto God are all his works
from the beginning, Scripture says. Knowing that Satan would rise
up against him, like in Isaiah 14 where it says, I will, I will,
I will exalt my throne, I will, I'm going to ruin your creation,
I'm going to tempt that man, I will, I will. Knowing that,
God knew that, didn't he? Why didn't he stop it? He's God. He must have a reason. Could he have? Maybe he's not
God if he didn't. Right? All right? That angel became a devil. Now, I can hear all the arguments
by the world right now, like Paul heard up here. I can hear
all the arguments. Well, then, that means God did. Millenniums later, it was a man
and a woman created, and that devil tempted that man and that
woman. All right? Threw them into sin. He tempted them, yet they did
what they wanted to do. It wasn't any innocent transgression
on their part. Too often. That's the reason
men scoff at the Bible. They think that All that's a
fairytale, that God punished a man and a woman for eating
an apple. God's not unfair like that. That
man and that woman said, we want to be God. We don't like you
being God. Like men say today. We don't like you as God, absolute
ruler. We don't like that. We want control
of our own destiny. We don't like answering to you.
We want to be as God's. That's what they say. Who do
you think you are to withhold this from me? Huh? God said you
can have every tree. How many trees were there? How
many trees were there? Millions. God said every tree
but this one. What'd they want? That's just
not fair. I have a right to this tree as
well as any other. Who does he think he is to withhold
that from me? We just think that's unfair. We'll show him. We've
got a right to this, everything. We don't like him being God.
We want what we want. That's what man and woman did,
all right? God knowing that. Did God know
that? Did God purpose that? But, people, if something catches
God by surprise, he's not God. Things stretch me by surprise.
Things happen. Well, how'd that happen? Now, he's not God, now, if this
all happened by surprise, or this whole thing would just roll
out of control, what am I going to do now? He's not God. It's foolish to worship a God
like that. Well, Romans chapter 9, and the
arguers and all this say, well, if God's in control of all things,
how can he hold anybody accountable for anything? You talk about
God purposing all things, determining all things, then how, you know,
if I'm going to be elected, I'm going to be elected. If this
is going to happen, this is going to happen. Take a minute. If this is, then
we're all a bunch of robots. That's what you hear, don't you?
Ultimately, that's what you'll hear. If that's God, then we're
all just a bunch of robots. That's what they said to Paul
in Romans 9. When Paul was, look at this,
in verse 15, God said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy. Or that is, I determine who gets
mercy. I do. And you know, if we understood
what mercy was, we'd understand that it's God's prerogative. You understand? Some of you do.
Mercy is not getting what you deserve. The whole world is guilty
before God and does not deserve mercy. Mercy is not something
you deserve. If there's a man on death row,
he's going to get what he deserves, right? If he's spared, he got
mercy. That wasn't his rights. But it was the sovereign right
of the governor who said, stop clemency. And God says, I will
have mercy on whom I will. The whole sinful race of man
is guilty. What Romans 3.19 says, guilty. All right? God says, I will have
mercy on whom I will have mercy. I'm thankful he said, I will
have mercy. He didn't have to. Men say, that's
unfair. You know what fair is from God?
It's for him to burn the whole planet up, everybody in it. What
would have been fair by God is for God to kill Adam and Eve
and have no more human beings, period. That's what would have
been fair. Fair in the sense of right, just,
getting what you deserve. God says, I will have mercy.
Thank God. Aren't you glad? Senators are
glad that God will have mercy. He says, on whom I will. I decide
who gets it. I'm God. Senators don't have any complaint
with that. Senators say, I don't deserve mercy. If I get what
I deserve, I'd be damned. But God is rich in mercy. He
says, I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then, verse 16, it is not of him that willeth. Here I've
decided to let God save me. You can't, you don't understand. Men don't understand. This generation doesn't understand.
You can't let God do anything. A creature can't let the Creator
do anything. Is that plate going to let me
pick it up? Patrick, that plate right now
is saying, well, I decided to let Him pick me up. Throw me
through the window. Stand up. I'm not going to do
that. Isn't that silly? Isn't that ridiculous? Isn't
that ridiculous? Look at verse 21, "...hath not
the potter piled over the clay?" That's from Jeremiah 18. He took
Jeremiah down to the potter's house, and he said, let me show
you something. You see that lump of clay on
that wheel? That's you. You see the man sitting at the
wheel? That's me. I'm God. I'm God, I'm Creator. Cannot I do with my own what
I will? Yes, and I do. But, but, but, but, but, that's what
they kept saying the following, but, but, but, but, but, but. Look at verse 19. He says, Thou
wilt say then, why did he yet find fault? If he purposed this,
if he's directing this, if God's in control of all things and
And I did this, and somehow or another he purposed it. How can
he hold me accountable? I can't resist his will. His
will is going to be done. His purpose is going to be done.
God is sovereign. Then how can I be responsible? I'm a robot. I'm a pawn in God's
game. How did Paul answer that? How
did Paul answer that? Verse 20. No, old man. Nay, but, old man,
who art thou that replies against God? You know what he's saying
in old language? You better hush your mouth. Shall the thing formed say to
him that formed it? You can't do that. I'm going to tell you the first
step in receiving mercy. And. I don't deserve it. You're gone. Everybody says that they get.
And somehow or another, he purpose. He's one. Well, I don't understand. Yes, you do. But I don't understand. Yes,
you do. Don't we? The problem is not
people understanding that. What's the problem? You don't
like it. They read that. And as we said
on the radio, that's the reason there's so many perversions of
Scripture. That's the reason people keep changing the Bible.
Because if you just take out what we don't like, we'll change
it into words we do like. And so we said, now listen. So
we're saying, I'm not explaining things here. I'm just declaring
them. You understand? I'm not explaining why God does
what he does. I'm not explaining things that
happen. Who can? God knows. And it's right. That's what Moses
said to the judge of the earth. He'll be right. He knows a lot
more than I know. And I love what Old Brother Scott
said. Old Brother Scott Richardson said, if we knew what God knows,
we'd do everything just like God did it. All right, so this is the answer
to all questions back there in our text. The answer to all questions,
really, is a declaration. The Lord made all things for
himself. And that right, Jenny? Why'd
he do that? Because he decided to. But what? That's not fair. Well, think that if you want
to. But he did it. Then I don't like that. Then
go to hell. I don't believe that. He'll damn
you for it. And then you'll get exactly what
you deserve. You're a girl! I bow. I believe you're God and I'm
nothing but a piece of clay. Open your mouth and I'll feel
it. Open your ear and I'll teach you wisdom. Listen up, I've got something
for you, never mind these unbelievers. And even that was of the Lord.
You see, that's of the Lord. The man that says, You're God
and I'm nothing, that's of the Lord. Well, and I'm not going to explain
it any further, but there it is. The Lord made all things
for himself, for himself. Why'd you do that? I decided
to, that's why. These humans are crazy. What in the world is he doing
now? And I do not stop to try to explain
to him. Could I? Jill, could he understand
if I tried? I'm speaking human language.
He knows about five words of that language. Lie. Stay. Come. Know. What am I going to tell him?
The philosophies of human life? Why I do the things I do? The
grand purposes that I have in mind? He's a dog. Yeah, but you
say, but we're human beings creating the image of God. We lost that.
We lost that in the garden. Man lost that. I do believe that
man has, people believe man came from a monkey. Well, I believe
he turned into a monkey. I don't believe he came from
one, but I do believe he's turned into one. Because he just does
what he sees. Isn't that right? He just does
what everybody else does. He's a monkey. God's got to make
a man out of him. A man like the Lord Jesus Christ
has some sense. See, right? That's what God does
to a human being, turns him from a monkey to a man. Ah, boy. The Lord hath made all things,
no more than he's created. He hath made all things for himself. It's from me. For my purposes,
I can do what I want to with it. It's mine. He said, Lord, let him do what
seems good. You believe that? You bow to that. You submit to
that. All believers do. All believers do. There's not
a person on the earth who's a believer who doesn't submit to that and loves it. Loves it. Well, God is God. All right,
back to the text now in verse five, and I'm going to hurry.
Would you believe I wanted to get down through verse Where,
verse 11 at least, well, let's go. Verse 5 says, Everyone that's
proud and hard is an abomination to the Lord. Why? Because of
what we just, what he just said. The Lord did everything. He did everything. Anybody that's
proud of anything, anybody that's proud of their strength, their
beauty, their wisdom, you know, I absolutely hate These glamour
magazines and things, these health magazines and stuff. I really do. I absolutely despise
and detest them. Especially when my sister was
wasting away with cancer and got down to about 90 pounds to
see these glamorous women strutting their stuff. I hate that. To see these muscle men bolstering
their muscles. One germ will reduce them to
a noodle. One germ will reduce the strongest
man on earth to a wheelchair-bound invalid. And who makes anybody
to differ? Why is one woman beautiful and
another one disfigured? God hates pride. That's in Proverbs six verse
sixteen and following says six things the Lord hate this seven
is abomination. The first thing is pride. Everyone is proud and people. And we're all proud proud of
something. Why? Because everything the Lord
had done, all beauty, all wisdom, all power, all position, all
riches, it's all of the Lord. All these things that my hand
made, the Lord said. If you know anything, it's because
I taught you. If you're pretty, it's because
I made you that way. If you're strong, it's because
I gave you the strength. That's why it's an abomination
of the Lord. What do we have? Now, if we received
everything, why would we glory as if we didn't receive it? God
hates it. We don't. Though hand joined
in hand, everybody agrees, that is. Everybody's in agreement.
Isn't man something? Man's nothing. Aren't we something? Look at what we've done. That's
what they did at Babel, the people at the Tower of Babel. That's
what the children of... We are something now. the children of Israel got out
in the desert and said, Now, we don't deserve this. Ah, boy. Though hand-joined in
hand, though everybody agrees that mankind really is something
special, God's going to shove it. Read on. By mercy and truth,
iniquity is purged. The only way A human being is
going to go unpunished by this holy and righteous God. And I'm
talking about myself and all of us. The only way we're going
to miss hell is by Jesus Christ taking our
place. That's it. All mercy, see, Jesus Christ
is the mercy of God to a human being. Outside of Christ there
is no mercy. No mercy. Only in Christ. Only by Jesus
Christ going through hell for me will I miss Him. Only by God not sparing His Son
will I be spared. Huh? And truth. This is the truth. Mercy and truth. Mercy and truth,
iniquity is perfect, it says. Iniquity. My sins are going to
be found in Christ. My sins are going to be found
on Him, or they'll be found on me. God's
going to punish me or Christ, one or the other. I need a substitute. And this
is why it says, the fear of the Lord. Now, by the fear of the
Lord, men depart from evil. Verse 6, by the fear of the Lord,
we depart from evil, especially the evil of pride and unbelief.
By the fear of the Lord. Verse 7, and I'm going to just
read real quickly. When a man's ways please the
Lord. When will a man's ways ever please
the Lord? You remember up in verse two,
it said, All the ways of man are clean in his own eye, and
the Lord weighs the spirit. When will a man's ways ever please
the Lord? Well, you can read it for yourself sometime. Over
in John 6, the people said, in verses 28 and 29, they said,
What should we do to work the works of God? What can we do? What can we do to work the works
of God? And Christ said, This is the work of God. that you believe on him whom
he hath sinned. You better look to Christ. That's
what you better do, because you're a hell-bound sinner. Boy, isn't that an old-fashioned,
hated, foolish preaching today? Huh? Hell-bound sinner? What
are you talking about? Our Lord said that. You better trust Christ as your
only righteousness. In other words, nothing you've
ever done is good enough to merit heaven. God's too holy. And so
you better look to Christ as your only righteousness. You
better ask Christ to represent you before this holy God. You
better. You better do that. This is the
work of God. This is the only thing that's
pleasing to God. You're going to be accepted one way, and that's in the blood. You're going to be accepted one
way, and that's by Jesus Christ doing everything he did for you.
All his good works counted to you, imputed to you. And his
death, that is, him paying for sin, paying for your sin. What must we do to work the works
of God when a man's works please God? Wage. Then he makes his
enemies to be at peace with him. Do you see how that reads? See,
I was once a child of wrath, even as others. God's ways please
the Lord. So he made me be at peace with
him. Did you read it like that? You
read that personally, didn't you? Well, when I'm pleasing
to God, then my enemies will be pleased with me. That's not quite that reasoning,
is it? God's, Christ's ways are pleasing to the Lord, and therefore
me, I'm an enemy. I'm at peace with him. See that? And two, it does mean, it does
mean that there's no adversary out of God's control. Really,
everything's under his control. Everything's at peace, concerning
me, even my enemies. That's when David said, let leave
old Shimei alone. The Lord's saying, trust me. And sometimes even God brings
us all down to repent to David. Remember that? Saul came to David
and said, I've sinned. You're right, and I'm wrong.
That doesn't happen very often, but it did. It does. Verse 8
says, Better is little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
What righteousness have I been talking about? Jesus Christ's righteousness.
We're talking about Jesus Christ's righteousness. That's the only
righteousness God accepts. That's the only righteousness
there is, people. In Isaiah 64, 6, there's all our righteousness
that's filthy right. God, you remember how this all
started. God weighs the spirits. God looks
on the heart. It's got to be perfect. Well,
how? Jesus Christ. Trust in Christ. God accepts what he did on your
behalf. That's the righteousness. Better
is little with righteousness than great revenues without right. Let me tell you a little illustration
here of this. A little with righteousness. You know, we have much. We really
do, every one of us. We do. We have much. But comparatively, we have little
compared to what this world really has now. We have little. We were out on
Sam's yacht on Smith Mountain Lake. I laughed. Everybody laughs
at seeing Sam's yacht. I like your yacht. I'm being
facetious here. It's a pontoon boat. It's an
open-sided ponzo. It's a wonderful boat. Better
than mine. Nice boat. We were out on Sam's
ponzoing boat on the lake. We went to the lake. Y'all know
where the lake is. Well, there we were, all of us folks on that
ponzoing boat, cooking tube steaks. You know what to expect, don't
you? Huh? Hot dog. Not caviar and, you
know, T-bone, but hot dog. Cruising down the lake. We're
just flying down the lake. That's all I'm saying. Flying
down that lake at sixteen miles per hour. And here's all the mountains. Whoa. Whoa. And on by comes a
barge, I mean, a yacht, literally, this time. Oh, here we are, a
bunch of little sons of God, out on the world's lake, in our
pontoon boat. We're floating like they are.
I kind of thought about this. I thought, you know, how many
people are there? least eight. Eight little people on an ark, on a world roaring by. Look at
that. Whoa. Who's God's blessing? Where is the favor of God Almighty? Well, that's Those little believers on that
little boat in the midst of all that stuff. Huh? Had to make
you keep from wanting to upgrade, want to say. I wouldn't blame you. Better is little with righteousness, favor of
God. How's that? Jesus Christ. And great revenues. be under
the judgment of God. That'll make you keep, let me
tell you something, the heart, and we talked about the heart
a while ago, and honestly, from my, honestly now, I couldn't
always have said this, and the fact that I can say this is not
me, it's the Lord, we're cruising down that boat, and honestly
I can say, I wouldn't want to live there. Honestly, I'm going to pour out
my heart to you. Did you hear me, Sam, several
times say, I wouldn't want that boat. Honestly, didn't I? I wouldn't want that big cabin
cruiser with all the amenities and all that. There's nothing
to worry. Nothing to worry. And honestly, this gospel, this
righteousness will keep you in check. Keep you in check. This
gospel will keep you in check. If you look at things, that's
vanity. There's no happiness in that. It's never big enough,
is it? It's never enough. Never big
enough. Never enough. What's enough? What's a boat? Let me ask you a boat. What one
thing do you want out of a boat? That's right. You want a good
boat! Big boats sink. They sure do. Ask the Titanic people. Which
would you rather have? There is a Titanic, finest luxury
liner ever known to man, and all the amenities, and everybody's
a… What did that woman say on the TV the other night about
that big party where all the world's rich and famous sit? You quoted her. You said, everybody
that's of value. What was she saying? She said,
all important people are here. Anybody that's anybody, she said,
is at this party. I thought, man, it's a wonder
that an earthquake didn't happen just then. Isn't it a wonder?
If I was God, I would have, immediately. But there they are, floating
on the Titanic. Boy, it's insane. And that, oh,
and here's a little wooden boat down here. Here's a wooden ship
with eight people on You know who's on it? Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Who? Shem, Ham, and Japheth. You know
who those are? I don't know. Shem, Ham, and
Japheth. You got that? Got that? There
is one, you know, Noah. That's Noah's sons. Eight people on that wooden boat.
You got it plugged up with tar. They got the whole boat covered
with black tar. It's a black tar boat, which look big. You know it's
still that way? It's still that way today. They're
still. It's going to be passage. They're
taking all company in the boat. Titanic's getting ready to sail. The ark, the door's still open.
Harbour! Luncher. I bet you look big, really. I
bet you look big. Honestly, I think sheep smell
better than humans. I'll take the start. I like the
smell of horses. My next-door neighbor said this,
and John, you can be coming up, lead us into him. My next-door
neighbor is a clinical psychologist. Don't ask me what that is. I
don't know. It means he deals with, he's, well. Anyway, he
said this to me one day, and it shocked me. Really? Because
he deals with all sorts of nutcases here. And he said, you know,
the more I get to know men, the better I like dogs. Well, man, if you only knew.
That's all who God deals with. Dogs. What hand do we rub?
Paul Mahan
About Paul Mahan
Paul Mahan has been pastor of Central Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, Virginia since 1989; preaching the Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace.
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